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3-letter words (2 found)

DAW,WAD,

2-letter words (3 found)

AD,AW,DA,

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Definitions and meaning of wad

wad

Etymology 1

Probably short for Middle English wadmal (“woolen cloth”), from Old Norse váðmál (“woolen stuff”), from váð (“cloth”) + mál (“measure”). See wadmal.

Cognate with Swedish vadd (“wadding, cotton wool”), German Wat, Watte (“wad, padding, cotton wool”), Dutch lijnwaad, gewaad, watten (“cotton wool”), West Frisian waad, Old English wǣd (“garment, clothing”) (English: weed). More at weed, meal.

Alternative forms

  • wadde (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: wŏd, IPA(key): /wɒd/
  • (General American) enPR: wŏd, IPA(key): /wɑd/
  • Rhymes: -ɒd

Noun

wad (plural wads)

  1. An amorphous, compact mass.
  2. A substantial pile (normally of money).
  3. A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge, or earlier on the charge of a muzzleloader or cannon.
    Synonyms: prop, valet
  4. (slang) A sandwich.
  5. (slang, vulgar) An ejaculation of semen.
Synonyms
  • (an ejaculation of semen): cumload, cumwad, load
Derived terms
Translations
See also
  • Wad on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

wad (third-person singular simple present wads, present participle wadding, simple past and past participle wadded)

  1. To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
    She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash.
  2. (Ulster) To wager.
  3. To insert or force a wad into.
    to wad a gun
  4. To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.
    to wad a cloak
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Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms

  • wadd

Noun

wad (countable and uncountable, plural wads)

  1. (dialect) Plumbago, graphite.
  2. (mineralogy) Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits.

Anagrams

  • ADW, AWD, DAW, Daw, d'aw, daw

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch wat, from Old Dutch *wada, from Frankish *wad, from earlier wad (attested c. 108), from Proto-Germanic *wadą.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋɑt/
  • Hyphenation: wad
  • Rhymes: -ɑt
  • Homophones: wat, watt

Noun

wad n (plural wadden, diminutive wadje n)

  1. wadeable, tidal mud flat

Derived terms

Iban

Etymology

Borrowed from English ward.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wad/

Noun

wad

  1. ward

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English wad.

Noun

wad m (invariable)

  1. (mineralogy) wad (manganese ore)

Maranungku

Noun

wad

  1. go
    wad gaŋani : I went (wad 'go', ga- 'past tense', -ŋa- 'I', -ni 'movement')

References

  • Pacific Linguistics (Australian National University), issue 54 (1979), page 246

Old English

Alternative forms

  • weard, *weald

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *waiʀd, from Proto-Germanic *waizdaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wɑːd/

Noun

wād n

  1. woad

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle English: wad, wod, wadde, wode
    • Scots: wad, waid
    • English: woad
  • Middle English: welde, wolde
    • English: weld, wold

References

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vat/
  • Rhymes: -at
  • Syllabification: wad

Noun

wad f

  1. genitive plural of wada

Scots

Etymology 1

From Old English wolde, past of willan.

Verb

wad

  1. (South Scots) would
Derived terms
  • wad hae
  • wadna
  • ye'd

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

  • wed

Noun

wad (plural wads)

  1. pledge, security

Yola

Etymology

Probably short for Middle English wadmal (“woolen cloth”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wad/

Noun

wad

  1. wisp

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 77

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